Dry Cleaning. Jenny on Holiday. An introspective debut from Mon Rovîa. Stephen Thompson from NPR Music is joined by Celia ...

Venezuela has a deep tradition of reflecting political change through music. This week, as the country reels from the seizure ...

Great Grandpa writes lullabies for the restless. The indie rock band's thoughtful intensity remains intact at the Tiny Desk, just at a quieter volume.

Mexican singer-songwriter Humbe has released three albums in three years. His latest, "Dueño del Cielo," completes a trilogy started in 2023.

NPR's Daniel Estrin asks Nora Felder, the music supervisor for the series "Stranger Things," how she went about scoring the series over its decade-long run which ended this week.

Producer Mark Ronson and singer Bruno Mars started their careers on opposite sides of the country and took different paths to ...

Kesha. Kae Tempest. Nilüfer Yanya. It's an abbreviated Independence Day edition of New Music Friday. Stephen Thompson gives you a quick rundown of the new albums that caught his ear. If you enjoyed ...

Bon Iver returns. Valerie June branches out. Gerald Clayton channels The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Erin Wolf of Radio Milwaukee's 88Nine to the show for a quick run ...

Welcome to the sound of public radio in 2025. Our list of the best 125 songs of the year was curated by more than 60 writers and DJs across the NPR Music Network, and runs the gamut of sounds, scenes ...

March 31st, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – NPR Music and New York's globalFEST are excited to announce the return of the fifth edition of NPR Music's Tiny Desk x globalFEST, taking place Monday, March 31st ...

September 16, 2025 Washington, D.C. — NPR announced today that Sonali Mehta has been named Executive Director of NPR Music. She will start September 22, and will be based in New York. Mehta is a music ...

As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year we revisit a story about a Ukrainian ...